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Saturday, October 22, 2016

Little Ondine Swatches and Review

Provided for Review

Hey all! I have something different today to share. Little Ondine is a brand that creates 5-Free vegan water based polishes. I have never tried water bases polishes so I was definitely intrigued to try these. This is a word heavy review, so let's get to it!

First off, I have to talk about the packaging. I love the minimalist square bottles and the labeling. Each polish comes in their own plastic square box with a wooden orange stick and those are mailed in a box box mailer.

I was provided with five colors plus their Secret Top/Base Coat (a combination treatment polish). The creme formula is slightly stringy but they go on well, without issue. Most are opaque in two coats, I had one that needed three, and the black polish I was provided was deeply opaque in one coat (WIN). They do not have an odor that I noticed (to be honest, that kind of threw me off) and do dry somewhat quickly. Not lightening quick like I am used to with my quick-dry topcoat but within 30 minutes or so.

Because they are water based, they will perform differently. Once you apply these, you want to keep dry within the first hour and avoid warm water within the first three hours of application. And once you do want to remove then, don't use acetone, they will instead just peel off in one sheet.

I tested Red Red Wine on my right non-swatching hand for a few days and I got about three days of usage before I noticed some lifting and then I just peeled off the polish. No damage at all on my nail. It was like I had applied a liquid latex base except I had more days wear instead just a day like I would have with liquid latex.

My only criticism is that because they are water based, if you have to do any clean up after your application, using pure acetone doesn't work that well. But I didn't have to do that much clean up, even with the black polish, the flat wide brush really helps applies neat lines.

I really loved these, especially for someone like me who changes up my nail polish frequently. Because they have such a different type of polish formula, I do not recommend mixing these with your regular base and topcoats but it is really nice that their topcoat is a combo base coat as well. Cost wise, they are priced about the same as many indie polish brands, each polish retails for $12.99 each.

For this weekend (10/22 - 10/23) use the code HALLOWEEN for 10% off plus free shipping on orders of $19.99 and above. Oh and you probably want to know where you can buy your own Little Ondine, this is their webshop plus links to their shipping and return pages.

Little Ondine Smoky Mountain

Two coats

Light gray creme

Comes off on one easy sheet!

Little Ondine Citrus

Two coats

Buttercream yellow creme

Little Ondine Chai Latte

Three coats

Milk chocolate brown creme

Little Ondine Red Red Wine

Two coats

Wine burgundy red creme

This color. THIS COLOR. Oh my, just enough brown in it to make it an oxblood shade.

Little Ondine Back to Black

One coat

Black creme

I have to talk about this possibilities this black brings. It is so gosh darn opaque (one coat shown below) that I can see myself using this frequently with nail art. And I don't have to worry about messy removal that black polish brings, because it will just peel off! Yeah, I know, I am starting to sound like an infomercial but this is made me so excited.